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Ambient Assisted Living and Daily Activities

6th International Work-Conference, IWAAL 2014, Belfast, UK, December 2-5, 2014, Proceedings

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Editors:
  1. Leandro Pecchia

    1. School of Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

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  2. Liming Luke Chen

    1. School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

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  3. Chris Nugent

    1. Institute, School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster, Computer Science Research, Newtownabbey, UK

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  4. José Bravo

    1. Escuela Superior de Informática, Castilla La Mancha University, Ciudad, Spain

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 8868)

Part of the book sub series: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)

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Table of contents (64 papers)

  1. Expression, Mood and Speech Recognition

    1. Automatic Summarization of Activities Depicted in Instructional Videos by Use of Speech Analysis

      • Joseph Rafferty, Chris D. Nugent, Jun Liu, Liming Chen
      Pages 123-130

    2. A New Feature Extraction Technique for Human Facial Expression Recognition Systems Using Depth Camera

      • Muhammad Hameed Siddiqi, Rahman Ali, Byeong Ho Kang, Sungyoung Lee
      Pages 131-138

    3. Monitoring Moods in Elderly People through Voice Processing

      • Víctor Rojas, Sergio F. Ochoa, Ramón Hervás
      Pages 139-146

    4. Facial Expression Recognition from Webcam Based on Active Shape Models and Support Vector Machines

      • Elena Lozano-Monasor, María T. López, Antonio Fernández-Caballero, Francisco Vigo-Bustos
      Pages 147-154

  2. Health Monitoring, Risk Prediction and Assessment

    1. Cloud-Based Remote Processing and Data-Mining Platform for Automatic Risk Assessment in Hypertensive Patients

      • Paolo Melillo, Paolo Scala, Filippo Crispino, Leandro Pecchia
      Pages 155-162

    2. Predictability of Some Pregnancy Outcomes Based on SVM and Dichotomous Regression Techniques

      • Gabriele Guidi, Giulia Adembri, Silvia Vannuccini, Ernesto Iadanza
      Pages 163-166

    3. To What Extent It Is Possible to Predict Falls due to Standing Hypotension by Using HRV and Wearable Devices? Study Design and Preliminary Results from a Proof-of-Concept Study

      • Giovanna Sannino, Paolo Melillo, Giuseppe De Pietro, Saverio Stranges, Leandro Pecchia
      Pages 167-170

  3. Localization

    1. PChCT: A Tool to Monitor Child Whereabouts

      • Fernando Martínez-Reyes, Luis A. Castro, Luis C. González-Gurrola
      Pages 171-178

    2. A Low-Cost ZigBee-Based Gateway System for Indoor Localization and Identification of a Person

      • Claudio Guerra, Francesco Montalto, Valentina Bianchi, Ilaria De Munari, Paolo Ciampolini
      Pages 179-186

    3. Method, Design and Implementation of a Self-checking Indoor Localization System

      • Fabio Veronese, Daniel Soleimani Pour, Sara Comai, Matteo Matteucci, Fabio Salice
      Pages 187-194

    4. Wearable Computing to Support Activities of Daily Living

      • Colin Shewell, Chris D. Nugent, Mark Donnelly, Haiying Wang
      Pages 195-202

  4. User Preferences, Usability, AAL Acceptance and Adoption

    1. Revisiting the User Experience of a Virtual Rehabilitation Tool for the Physical Activation and Cognitive Stimulation of Elders

      • Alberto L. Morán, Victoria Meza, Cristina Ramírez-Fernández, Ana I. Grimaldo, Eloísa García-Canseco, Felipe Orihuela-Espina et al.
      Pages 203-210

    2. Decision Modeling in Smart Home Design

      • Mohammadali Heidari, Erfaneh Allameh, Bauke De Vries, Harry Timmermans, Farhang Mozaffar
      Pages 211-218

    3. Garment Design for an Ambulatory Pregnancy Monitoring System

      • Monica Perusquía-Hernández, Wei Chen, Loe Feijs
      Pages 219-227

    4. Acceptance of Selected Applications of Ambient Assisted Living in the Project A²LICE

      • Anne Randow, Christian Poßögel, Sebastian Thiele, Martin Grünendahl
      Pages 228-235

    5. Informal Carer Role in the Personalisation of Assistive Solutions Connected to Aspirations of People with Dementia

      • Maria Laura De Filippis, Michael P. Craven, Tom Dening
      Pages 236-243

    6. Designing ICT for Health and Wellbeing

      • Anders Hedman, Niklas Karvonen, Josef Hallberg, Juho Merilahti
      Pages 244-251

    7. Usability Evaluation Method for Mobile Applications for the Elderly: A Methodological Proposal

      • Doris Cáliz, Xavier Alamán
      Pages 252-260

    8. GeoFencing on a Mobile Platform with Alert Escalation

      • Natalie Carr, Paul McCullagh
      Pages 261-265

    9. Predicting Technology Adoption in People with Dementia; Initial Results from the TAUT Project

      • Ian Cleland, Chris D. Nugent, Sally I. McClean, Phillip J. Hartin, Chelsea Sanders, Mark Donnelly et al.
      Pages 266-274
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Ambient Assisted Living, IWAAL 2014, held in Belfast, UK, in December 2014. The 42 full papers presented with 12 papers of the workshop WAGER 2014 and 10 papers of a special session HTA were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The focus of the papers is on following topics: ADL detection, recognition, classification; behavioural changes, coaching and education; AAL design and technical evaluation; expression, mood and speech recognition; health monitoring, risk prediction and assessment; localization; and user preferences, usability, AAL acceptance and adoption.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

    Leandro Pecchia

  • School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

    Liming Luke Chen

  • Institute, School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster, Computer Science Research, Newtownabbey, UK

    Chris Nugent

  • Escuela Superior de Informática, Castilla La Mancha University, Ciudad, Spain

    José Bravo

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